Dave Johnson

April 20th, 2007

I posted some of our initial JSP taglib support for the Nitobi Complete UI and yesterday we posted some more good stuff!

Mike has been hard at work making a plugin for Eclipse WTP so that you can drag and drop your Nitobi components in the Eclipse IDE. He has also put together a plugin for Stuts 2. And for those that just want plain old JSP support he has also updated the JSP taglib. Go check out Mike’s post for the details of just download it below and give it a go!

Eclipse Plugin 0.8 (This is plugin uses the trial versions of the components)
Struts 2 Plugin 0.8
Nitobi Taglib 0.8 (some small kinks worked out)
Nitobi Server Library 1.0.1 (This updated library (used to be called nitobicomponents.jar) is needed for the Struts 2 plugin)

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April 5th, 2007

We’ve had a number of customers request a JSP Taglib for our components and we can finally say here it is in all its fabulous glory - thanks to the great work of Mike. A nice thing with the taglib is you don’t have to worry about including the required javascript and stylesheet files, which I hope will be a boon for those using templates. The tag will automatically add the needed scripts and styles to your page (but you can use the toolkitjsurl, componentjsurl, and componentcssurl attributes to change where to find them). Plus, you don’t have to worry about forgetting the namespace declaration - shock horror! And of course, in Eclipse (and no doubt other IDEs) you get good ol’ code completion for free. Huzzah.

Like any other taglib, just put the jar file in your WEB-INF/lib and include it in your web.xml file, like so:

Suggestions are, of course, very welcome. So pipe up if you’ve got some in the comments below or on the forum! We’d love any sort of feedback about the taglib and more generally how you think we can improve our components for use in a Java EE environment.

Next in the pipeline is integration with Eclipse and Netbeans and we’ll also have some tutorials detailing how to use our components in Struts and Spring real soon.

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